Abstract
To implement farm land consolidation that takes into consideration mobilization of land for agricultural use and formation of land use order (planning subjects), the “Kande method” as a planning method of a comprehensive district plan is effective. The “Kande method” is composed of planning organization, planning composition and a set of investigations. This paper focuses its attention on the planning organization which is the first condition of the “Kande method”, and clarifies the mechanism of its effectiveness.
The first condition of the “Kande method” is that the planning organization should have both a council of a district and a council of a settlement (two-layer type), but there is also the idea that it should have only one council of a district (single-layer type). This paper examines and compares the experimental results of the first period of making a comprehensive district plan in the Kande district and Nagao district in Kobe city (two-layer type) with the last period of a district (single-layer type), and makes clear the points mentioned below.
(1) The two-layer type is effective, because the two-layer type (which is applied to the last period of making a comprehensive district plan of the Kande district and Nagao district) accomplishes the planning subjects, but the single-layer type (which is applied to the first period of making a comprehensive district plan of the Kande district and Nagao district) dosen't accomplish them.
(2) The reasons why the two-layer type is effective are because the district leaders, municipalities and planners attend a general meeting of a settlement and explain various problems related to a district and the making of a comprehensive district plan and the inhabitants and their supporters discuss them at each stage; examining a written investigation of self survey, a written pilot plan and a written master plan. Therefore the awareness of the residents of a district is reformed and the district leaders and district residents take active interest in making a comprehensive district plan.
